Supreme Court seems open to upholding regulations on ghost guns, hard-to-trace weapons linked to crime

Gun control

Published
October 8, 2024

Supreme Court seems open to upholding regulations on ghost guns, hard-to-trace weapons linked to crime

The manufacturers and gun rights groups challenging the rule argued the Biden administration overstepped by trying to regulate kits for quickly making nearly untraceable guns at home.
Published
September 19, 2024

Gun safety coalition launches campaign to get a red flag law on the Maine ballot

The effort comes after lawmakers failed to advance an extreme-risk protection order bill in the wake of the mass shooting in Lewiston last October.
Published
September 16, 2024

Sens. Collins, King co-sponsor bill requiring military to use state crisis intervention laws

The bill would require the armed services to utilize state laws, such as Maine's yellow flag law, to disarm people who are a threat to themselves and others. It was introduced a little less than one year after the state's deadliest mass shooting.
Published
September 8, 2024

Life After Artie: Lewiston shooting victim’s father finds purpose in gun reform

Before his son was killed in the massacre last fall, Arthur Barnard hadn't voted in decades, flown on a plane or met with U.S. senators. All of that has changed.
Published
July 1, 2024

How to keep guns off Bourbon Street? Designate a police station as a school

The designation will instantly outlaw gun possession in the surrounding French Quarter area of New Orleans.

Published
June 25, 2024

U.S. surgeon general declares gun violence a public health emergency

Dr. Vivek Murthy calls on the U.S. to ban automatic rifles, introduce universal background checks for purchasing guns, regulate the industry, pass laws that would restrict their use in public spaces and penalize people who fail to safely store their weapons.
Published
June 18, 2024

Republicans block bill to outlaw bump stocks after Supreme Court lifts Trump-era ban

The bipartisan bill, sponsored by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., would ban the sale of the devices, similar to the rule issued by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Published
June 14, 2024

Supreme Court strikes down ban on bump stocks, used in nation’s deadliest mass shooting

Maine Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a state-level ban on bump stocks earlier this year, one of several gun law reforms passed in the wake of the October mass shooting in Lewiston.
Published
June 10, 2024

Lewiston mass shooting survivors consider looming election as gun control comes to forefront

Voters in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District will choose the Republican candidate who will challenge three-term Rep. Jared Golden this fall in one of the nation’s most closely watched congressional elections.
Published
April 23, 2024

Tennessee lawmakers pass bill to allow armed teachers, a year after deadly Nashville shooting

Members of the public who oppose the bill harangued Republican lawmakers after the vote, leading House Speaker Cameron Sexton to order the galleries cleared.

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